Reports

(FR) (Column of 50,000 begins crossing border at Gisenyi) (660) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says a column of some 50,000 refugees from the camps in the Bukavu region have begun to…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Emergency Update No. 44 on Eastern Zaire (29 November 1996) Aid workers report fighting around Minova today. Attempts to help some 40,000 refugees, encountered…

Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor RUHENGERI, RWANDA -- Basahili Ngiruswonsanga says he is innocent of committing genocide in 1994. But he is scared to leave his newly reclaimed house in case his neighbors believe otherwise. Like 500,000…

OTTAWA (Reuter) - The international humanitarian mission to central Africa will be approved on Friday at a meeting in Ottawa, Canada announced on Thursday. "We have now achieved an agreement," Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy said in a statement, adding…

NAIROBI, Nov 28 (Reuter) - Aid workers on Thursday poured scorn on a Canadian plan to airdrop food to thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees in eastern Zaire, saying the proposal was expensive, dangerous and full of holes. The Zairean government…

Not an official document 6.3 mt of WFP high-energy biscuits were distributed in Rwanda on 28 November, bringing the total quantity of biscuits distributed since 17 November to 127.3 mt, equivalent to 633,661 daily rations. Distribution of returnee rations continues…

S/1996/993 I. INTRODUCTION 1. In paragraph 10 of its resolution 1078 (1996) of 9 November 1996, the Security Council requested the Secretary-General, in consultation with his Special Envoy, the Humanitarian Coordinator for the Great Lakes Region, the United…

This report includes: A) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania B) Uganda C) Liberia. From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. Available on the Internet at WFP Home Page http://www.wfp.org/ or by e-mail from HicksDeb@wfp.org (fax 39 6 5228 2837). For information regarding…

This report includes: A) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania B) Uganda C) Liberia. From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. Available on the Internet at WFP Home Page http://www.wfp.org/ or by e-mail from HicksDeb@wfp.org (fax 39 6 5228 2837). For information regarding…

ICRC NEWS 37 Before some of the Rwandan refugees in Zaire returned home, among them were more than 19,800 unaccompanied children who had been identified but had not yet been able to rejoin one of their parents. Today, it is…